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I went to the Saviors Pre-Release this past week and since I’m easily coerced by Sharkshares, I’d figured I’d write a report up.

Before I start telling you anything of value, I just want to say this: The Saviors Pre-Release rocked my freakin’ socks off. Okay, moving on.

If you’re not familiar with a Sealed Deck, I’ll fill you in. I know, I’m too kind.

You are given 1 Tournament Pack of the starting set of the most recent block and 3 boosters of the new set. So everyone at Saviors got 75 Champions of Kamigawa cards and 45 Saviors of Kamigawa cards. You have a somewhat limited amount of time to make a deck out of these cards.

I got some quick red cards and a ton of blue flyers, so I made a U/R/b deck. It looked a little something like this:

for the win. He tries to build up his army to kill me in one fell swoop, and I try to counter his stuff and play creatures of my own. It continues this way until the Judge called sudden death. We have 5 more turns to resolve the game or it’s a tie. I constantly use Sensei’s Diving Top to get game winning cards. I found a Captive Flame

a turn later. Good enough. I played it, and next turn I untapped and matched his 4 creatures for my 5 creatures, giving the unblocked one +6+0. That was a tough one.

Match 2

Game 1This was one pitiful matchup. I made a ton of mistakes here and it’s embarrassing how I lost. But hey, I’m willing to sell my ego for Sharkshares!

Dan was playing this Red Green deck. Dan was one of those really pushy players, really full of himself. It was weird, he was so confident and self-centered that I forgot I could do stuff. This is psychological warfare, don’t let your opponent control the game. As a player you can respond to his stuff anytime you want to and he HAS to let you think out your moves.

, and in the end he gets down to 10 while I’m at 5 before he swings with a 15/15.

Possibly the most depressing thing about this match was that I had a counter in my hand, available and ready but I forgot to counter the Descendant, the only creature he had. Psychological warfare, it’s a killer.

Game 2A.D.D. kinda kicked in around here. I forgot what happened, only that the ending score was 4-2. He had his lackeys hang around the table and constantly talk it up, I countered his Path of Anger

). I cannot tell you how many times this thing SAT in my hand like JABBA THE FREAKIN’ HUT!

But anyway, I went 1-2 and I’m quite happy. I went up against some very tough smart opponents and it was a great experience. I recommend to everyone that they go to at least one in the next year or so.

Adios.

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